Health Minister Christine Elliott is set to deliver the Progressive Conservatives’ prescription for what ails the province’s medicare system. After weeks of embarrassing leaks — including revelations in the Star about a new health “super agency” and the opposition NDP’s unauthorized release of a draft government bill — Elliott will table legislation on Tuesday. Health Minister Christine Elliott is poised to unveil plans to transform Ontario’s health-care system on Tuesday. “We’re very, very concerned about that,” she said, warning of increased “privatization” in health care. The draft bill, which Elliott downplayed as a “very early” version, would give the new super agency unprecedented powers to contract out health services.

Source: thestar February 25, 2019 20:26 UTC